Getting Data In

How to parse the format of Windows Event Log, in order to forward these logs to syslog server?

leo_wang
Path Finder

Hi ,
For some reason , I must forward the Windows Event Log to our syslog server.
I configured the indexer server as document described, and it works successfully :
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Forwarddatatothird-partysystemsd
( The "Forward syslog data to a third-party host" part )

But I don't know how to parse the Windows Event Log that Splunk forwarded to me.
The attached screenshot is the example log I opened with "Sublime" ( Text Editor ).
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It looks like Splunk converted the multi-line logs to single lines, and uses some special characters to format the log.
Anyone familiar with this format? How to parse it?

OR what does the character "NUL" exactly mean? and I notice there is a number ( usually 012 , 015 ) follow by this character , I guess they have special meanings ( like \t , \n ... or some control characters.)

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

theres an option to sendCookedData in outputs.conf. You want to set that to false.

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